VICTORY: Michigan House of Representatives Flips to Gun Safety Majority

Everytown Spent $10 Million to Elect Moms Demand Action Volunteers, Flip State Legislative Chambers, and Build Trifectas in Key Battleground States

WASHINGTON — Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, declared a major victory today as voters flipped the Michigan House of Representatives to a gun safety majority, establishing a gun safety trifecta.

“The Michigan House is back in the hands of lawmakers who will make gun safety a priority, and pick up the lifesaving work that has been stalled for two years,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “This new gun safety majority has a mandate to keep Michigan families safe, and Everytown stands ready to fight alongside them in Lansing.”

“For the second time in four years, volunteers have helped flip the Michigan House for gun safety, and more than a dozen Moms Demand Action volunteers will take their seats there in January,” said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. “These new lawmakers know firsthand what a gun safety majority can do for Michigan families, and they’ll be ready to build on the gun safety laws passed in 2023 and keep making them stronger. Our movement will be right there with them.”

“Michigan families have already seen what lifesaving laws can do, and we refused to let that progress stall,” said Hanna LoPatin, a volunteer with the Michigan chapter of Moms Demand Action. “We’re proud of every volunteer who knocked a door this fall, and we’re ready to get back to work in Lansing with Moms Demand Action volunteers keeping our safety at the top of the agenda.”

Everytown’s top state-level goal this cycle was building trifectas: establishing gun safety majorities in both legislative chambers alongside a gun safety champion in the governor’s office. Across Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund, and Everytown for Gun Safety VF MN invested $10 million, running paid media campaigns supporting Moms Demand Action volunteers in key state legislative battleground districts and partnering with the Democratic Governors Association to elect gun safety governors in those states. Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers made more than 15 million voter contacts in support of gun sense candidates up and down the ballot.

These candidates were among 547 Moms Demand Action volunteers who ran for offices up and down the ballot across 47 states this cycle, including 40 in all who ran for Congress. Many were trained through Demand a Seat, which Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund launched in 2021 to train grassroots volunteers and gun violence survivors to run for office. The program has trained more than 1,600 volunteers across 49 states and Washington, D.C. Since 2021, more than 600 former volunteers have been elected, including six who were already serving in Congress before this election.